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UPDATE: Victim identified in Sheboygan County crash

Ryan Moyer was volunteer firefighter
Posted at 8:37 PM, Feb 04, 2017
and last updated 2017-02-05 21:24:32-05
UPDATE: The victim and passengers in Saturday's crash in Sheboygan County have been identified. 
 
Sheriff's deputies say the driver and deceased victim was identified as 31-year-old Ryan T. Moyer from Adell. 
 
The passenger brought to ThedaCare was identified as 26-year-old Nicholas A. TeBeest from Plymouth. 
 
The passenger brought to Aurora Sheboygan Memorial was identified as 26-year-old Tyler J. Collins from Waldo. 
 
As the news of the deadly crash spreads, a community is grieving.
 
On Facebook, neighboring Oostburg Fire Department is displaying a solid black mourning band across a Waldo Fire Department badge. 
 
According to the Eastern Wisconsin Firefighters Association, Moyer and two other volunteer firefighters were delivering posters for an upcoming brat fry to area businesses at the time of the crash on Blueberry Lane and Pheasent Valley Road in Lyndon.
 
In a statement, the Eastern Wisconsin Firefighters Association says:
 
"Ryan was a true testament that if something needed to be done at the Firehouse, he was there to do it."
 
The Waldo Fire Department where Moyer worked releasing the following statement: 
 
"Ryan’s dedication and spirit will be sorely missed. Ryan was a 5 year member of the Waldo Fire Department. His accomplishments with in those 5 years were nothing short of amazing. Ryan was a State Certified firefighter who attended many training opportunities including National Fire Academy classes. Ryan also dedicated himself to energizing our annual fundraisers, remodeling our fire station and helping the department in any way he could. At the time of Ryan’s death he was out collecting donations for the Waldo Fire Department brat fry coming up in March. Ryan held the spirit of brotherhood within the fire service close to his heart. He had many friends within the fire service and would drop everything to help anyone out. Ryan did all this as a pure volunteer never receiving any compensation for his work. Ryan is survived by a wife, young son, close family and hundreds of good friends."
 
 
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TOWN OF LYNDON, WI -- One man is dead and two others are injured after a crash in Sheboygan County Saturday night.
 
It happened at the intersection of Blueberry Lane and Pheasant Valley Road in the Town of Lyndon.
 
When deputies arrived they found two men hurt and a third trapped under the vehicle.  The 31-year-old driver who was trapped died at the scene from his injuries.
 
One man was taken to Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.  The third man was flown by Flight for Life to ThedaCare Medical Center in Neenah with serious injuries.
 
Deputies are still investigating but say speed and alcohol are being looked at as potential factors in the crash.